MRI: Acquisition of an Integrated MultiBeam/Sediment Classification/ Current Profiling System for Interdisciplinary Research in Lake Champlain.

国际和平研究所要求提供资金，用于米德尔伯里学院以及佛蒙特州和纽约州尚普兰湖盆地的湖泊研究和研究培训(包括基于研究的实验室课程和教师指导的学生研究)的综合精密深度多波束/洋流剖面/海底表征(MCC)系统。MCC系统将解决缺乏详细的海底水深测量、表层沉积物特征和环流观测的问题。现有的数据相当陈旧，准确性令人怀疑，范围有限，而且不符合当前的技术标准。为了在未来20年推进尚普兰湖盆地的跨学科研究目标，必须解决这些问题。所要求的MCC系统将提供这些数据。更广泛的影响：PI和整个团队的记录以及对学生培训和教育计划的奉献精神非常强。该提案和米德尔伯里学院的湖泊研究项目的一个突出方面是，他们开放给其他机构的学生体验湖湖学学科和仪器。该工具所服务的学科领域的多样性很高，这也是该提议的一个优点。该区域内的伙伴关系机构还建议为学生和培训职能提供广泛的跨学科和更广泛的机会。在尚普兰系统内，从水质、栖息地和沉积物/营养物质/污染物扩散和迁移等方面收集的数据集在科学和社会问题上都有明确的应用用途。多波束能力无疑将对扩大该区域的合作研究倡议和伙伴关系具有强大的吸引力。

The PI's request funding for an integrated precision-depth multibeam / current-profiling / bottom characterization (MCC) system to be used in lake-studies research and research training (both research based lab classes and faculty-mentored student research) at Middlebury College and within the Lake Champlain basin of Vermont and New York. The MCC system will address a lack of detailed bottom bathymetry, surface sediment characterization, and observations of circulation. Existing data are quite old, of questionable accuracy, limited in scope, and not up to current technological standards. To move interdisciplinary research objectives in the Lake Champlain basin forward over the next 20 years, these issues must be addressed. The MCC system requested will provide these data.Broader Impacts: The PI's and overall teams record and dedication to student training and educational programs is very strong. An outstanding aspect of the proposal and the lake studies program at Middlebury College are their openness for students of other institutions to experience the limnological disciplines and instrumentation. The diversity of disciplinary areas served by the instrumentation is high and also a strength of the proposal. The partnering institutions within the region also suggest strong opportunity for broad interdisciplinary and extended opportunities for students and training functions. There are clear applied uses of datasets collected for both scientific and societal concerns within the Champlain system spanning from water quality, habitat and sediment/nutrient/contaminant dispersal and transport. Multibeam capabilities will undoubtedly be a strong attraction for expanding cooperative research initiatives and partnerships in the region.